Tucson: African Art Village Bead Show Haul! Tips and Tricks on How to Wash Beads and Pendants! 

Beading bracelets is a big summer hobby for me

Sudsy yellow Ammonia is the trick to cleaning old grime from metals. It's a huge secret amongst metal artisans. luv your channel!

And your pendants!!!!! You got some really unique ones! Just WOW! 😮

You got such a GREAT selection!!! It was so fun to explore the Village with you! ❤

Loved seeing these pieces!! Beautiful❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ so satisfying seeing the piece cleaned!

Wonderful haul. I’m fascinated by what you do with those very large beads. Thank you for the cleaning tips. Have a great day. Hello Goldie!

Thank you for sharing, Brittany. Your beads are fantastic and I loved your cleaning process.

Omg Brittney, I love it all!! The African Village is just breathtaking. My favorite would have to be the heishi beads and the African glass beads. Thanks for demonstrating the cleaning method. Love ya Goldie pie🥰

Before cleaning: Looks like an interesting object. After cleaning: Fabulous, colorful detailed piece of jewelry that anyone would want to wear!

Something very satisfying about watching you toothbrush the beads. I enjoyed it thoroughly. Watching the dirt come off? priceless. Goldie: Okay I'll give you a mini wag but now you have to attend to me. Here's my belly. Where's the toothbrush? What an experience it must have been in African Village. The beads and, my god, the Afghani pendants.....all so gorgeous. I couldn't possibly choose a favorite. I think I would cuddle that haul. Woweeeee!!! Someday, I hope, I'll be there. Thanks for sharing Brittany!

I love the beads you choose. I’ve said that before but, I love your choices. I’ve actually buy stuff I would never normally purchase.

Wow! Amazing how much better that piece looked after cleaning! Thank you for sharing your process.

I love watching you geek out on your African beads. Your passion is so strong. What a joy! Cheers

So so many yummies, and the cleaned piece compared to the dirty one one, I never seen the turquoise on it when you first showed it. lol what a difference the cleaning made. Beautiful. Hi miss Goldie. Tfs hugs to y’all.

The green n red looks like the nougat xmas candy lol😂

Such Fun! Thanks for the cleaning info too. We are in Quartzsite for the shows and the dust is thick everywhere, but we've had a great time! Thanks so much for shating!

Love your African bead haul! The African Village was awesome. I bought a statue. 😂 Went for beads and spent all my money on something else. Please use all your beads and great pendants. So so beautiful.

So hard to choose a favorite but at first I chose the heishi rondels. Then, you brought out the Afghani focals, all so beautiful, my favorites. You truly have an artistic eye!

I am so jealous of all your goodies. I'm hoping I get to visit Tucson for the bead show sometime in the very near future. TFS Brittany.

I love the first strand of beads. Wear them, don’t frame. Only you get to see them in the frame. All those around you get to see them when you wear them. They are fabulous. Of course. I could say that about many of the beads you showed. About cleaning your purchases I wash my jewelry with hand soap and water and dry immediately on a soft towel. I did have an experience of cleaning a man’s ring. It was his college ring that he wore daily. It was around 20-25 years after graduation. I took it home and dropped it in a jewelry cleaning solution that I bought from a traveling bead show. In the morning the solution was filthy and I thought that I had lifted a metal coloring. But it turned out to be layers of crud that embedded itself into the ring. I took the brush that came with the kit and scrubbed. It looked so good when I was done. You may want to try a gentle jewelry cleaner. I do remember that it was sold by the gallon. Hope I wasn’t too wordy. Love your purchases!🌸

I’m amazed at the amount of detail that now shows after cleaning. Can you announce in a tutorial when you’ll be selling some of these things.

I picked up a few of the afganistan pendants too! iI picked up a bunch of brass pendants and brass beads as well. I loved the African Art Village. I'd never visited there before. It's definitely a place to go to my next Gem Show trip. All the pieces I bought need cleaning so it was good to see how you do it.

I really enjoyed your video and the cleaning process...my favorite African beads were the multicolor ones and the yellow with red/mustard and ketchup 🤭

Use toothpaste to clean the Afghani pendants. It really works.

I really really want to go there someday

The glass turquoise that is on the red and white is fanominal! So is the red and white.✌

Such variety!

OMG! I am SOOO DROOLING right now! 😍 Dang, girl, that is some haul...but SOOO many yummies, I really can't pick a favorite! Although, I must confess that I'm a total sucker for those big, honkin' bone beads you always seem to find. However, I love just about any African glass in bright (OR soft) colors too...just not a huge fan of the "neutrals" myself. Oh, and some of those vintage Afghani pendants are absolutely "to die for"...the first one you showed, with the bigger glass jewels on it is definitely my favorite of those, I THINK! 🤣 Anyhoo, thanks for sharing...even if it did make me a little crazier than I already was! 🤪 H&C, headin' your way! 💞

Thank you for showing how to wash that pendant.

The cleaning you did on the piece brought out the colors more. Good job.

At 15:33 the pendant you show looks like a Multan enamel silver pendant that has lost most of its blue enamel. You can look some up in different states of repair on Etsy and on the web. They are usually quite pricey. You might be able to use these pictures to add blue in some form back to your pendant. They are fabulous.

LOVE Everything you picked out!! The pendant came out beautifully. I'm so glad you had a great time! Hugs to you and Goldie 🤗🤗

Those ones around 1200, wind chimes for the Arizona room.

I love that big multicolored floral piece you've got. I don't know what I would do with the beads & pendants you've got. When I see pieces like them I think of decoration pieces not jewelry.

Love!!

I'm SO SAD I didn't make it to the African Arts Village. It is my favorite! Love seeing your finds and you did an excellent job washing that pendant. It's gorgeous!!! I think the show ends on Sunday and a part of me is thinking of driving back down this weekend hahahaha - Kristen

i love these all of them! id have to bring two credit cards and a bunch of cash, maybe have to kick the boyfriend out of my life to get to tuscon 🤣 they're having bead expos in Philly area in summer. wish you could go! i can see you rocking those pendants at 11:25

I wish I had gotten the yellow! 😢

Do you have an online shop? Can’t seem to see a link anywhere. Love this information you’re sharing. I’m going to Tucson show for the first time and don’t have any idea how to figure it out. Thanks for your video.

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Love your haul - what would you make with all of the metals?

What do you wash your beads with? I like the Afghanie pendants.

hello to you. thank you for this vid. and i'd like to kno when the next show will be? how can i find out, that i may shop there too. thank you

Everything is beautiful, do any of the sellers have on line shops?

What is the name of the African vendor

I'm sorry it's barb again..I don't know the prices so 20 was just a guess... Money is not a problem because they are beautiful...